Best movie of that year, and the thing I love the most about it is that it's a film about the complexity of individuals, and how this gets simplified by time and history, and our lack of communication. Bob Ford isn't a "COWARD"(the title is definitely ironic, as is some of the narration), he was a human being who was confused, naive, hopeful and numerous other emotions in his interior life that he couldn't even begin to let out. James was the same way. This makes the way history treats them all the more heartbreaking. Ford(and James) is a man who is forever victim of the way people label him, the people that could never know him and the he was a victim of being a person whose complexities and depths would forever be locked away in his soul because as the last line of narration says "He couldn't find the right words". This film touches upon our fundamental human condition, our isolation, and our canonization through the memories and accounts of others, which could never define who we really are. It's a Great, Great film.
I'm so glad you liked it.